Henry Dawson Lowry

Henry Dawson Lowry (22 February 1869 – 21 October 1906) was an English journalist, short story writer, novelist and poet.^[1]

Life

Lowry was born at Truro and educated at Queen's College, Taunton, and then at the University of Oxford (unattached to a particular Oxford college) with B.A. in 1891. In 1891 his Cornish stories were accepted by W. E. Henley for publication in the National Observer. In 1893 Lowry took up residence in London and wrote for the Pall Mall Gazette, becoming a staff member in 1895. He then was on the staff of Black and White from 1895 to 1897. Early in 1897 he became the editor of the Ludgate Magazine and later in the year joined the staff of the Morning Post. He wrote under the pseudonym "The Impenitent" for the Daily Express^[2] and occasionally contributed to other newspapers and magazines.

Selected works

• Wreckers and Methodists. 1893.
• Women's Tragedies. 1895.
• A Man of Moods. 1896.
• Make Believe. 1896.
• The Happy Exile. 1897.
• The Hundred Windows. 1904; a book of poems
• A Dream of Daffodils; Last Poems by H.D. Lowry ... Arranged for the press by G.E. Matheson & C.A. Dawson Scott. With a memoir by Edgar A. Preston. 1912.

References

1.  Thomas Finlayson Henderson (1912). "Lowry, Henry Dawson". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement​. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
2. "Lowry, Henry Dawson". Who's Who. 1906. p. 1048.